Everyone is settled in.

Off to a gig tonight at the croxton. 3 hand built nose bleed decibel speaker systems. Two playing in synch in one room which will be dub / reggae, another system playing DnB / jungle. Don't normally fork over $40 unless it's a DnB international but these guys spend an inordinate amount of coin and time on these things so it's worth it just to keep the scene alive.

Also hambams on his walk / run today ran into a mum and her kid (probably 3yo). He was so gentle w/ her. He might not be all there upstairs at the dog park but around the very young kids he changes and is very mindful. So credit to hams.

My wife surprised me with a bottle of whiskey. Peated from England. Also cask strength, nearly 60% strong.

Is nice

I've been reading more books! In between working, doing laundry and going to the donut festival I've been reading a couple of Lin Anderson books, a Joshua Moehling book called And There He Kept Her, and started a couple of others I didn't like so I didn't persist with those. Loving the internet archive and Libby, free entertainment to offset the cost of taking the Minipeelers out!

Just a few more hours and I'll be finished up working in my current office. Twenty years with some of these people, it doesn't feel quite real yet to be leaving.

There has been a lot of food and some lovely gifts. All warmth themed, as befits a move to Ballarat. Plus an ice scraper for the car windscreen!

The donut festival has a stall where all the offerings are missing essential attributes of donut.

No sugar, no dairy, no gluten, no YEAST, no...basically, no donut

Impeccably dressed toddler has matched the tractors on his gumboots to the tractor on his jumper, and matched both to the exact shade of yellow on his bucket hat.

Mum says he chose it himself. If so, kid's got style!

I finally bit the bullet and got an ebike. Velectrix Adventurer. It's pretty much a step through mountain bike, so it has front suspension, dropper post, fat tyres, and a stronger motor.

It also comes with mud guards, a rack, and integrated lights wired to the battery. Plus it has hydraulic brakes, which feels like the necessary minimum for an ebike.

There are higher spec bikes out there, but this is all I need for a 15km trip to work that I'll do a few days a week in between regular bike rides.

I could have gone even more basic with the Velectrix Brunswick, but I thought my girlfriend could ride this one because of the frame and dropper post. It seems a little big, but I'd like to get her on there

Finished watching The Last of Us season 2. I didn’t like it.

Beach. I got quite close to a spoonbill today.

it looks 100 miles away in the pic

I experimental with the horizon, I usually do a low horizon or high horizon

I've started the actual painting of the set of bedroom furniture. I'm knackered already.

Feel effed today. Pretty sure it's from lowering my anti dep dose. I feel content but still a bit anxious.

Last few days have been amazing, so I know I just have to wait it out.

I appear to have misplaced the cat. She woke me up for food at 6 and now she must be snoozing in a hidey hole but I can't for the life of me find where. I know she can't get outside. I heard a random meow in response to me before but she's not answering now. I am mildly concerned and VERY curious...where is kitty??!

"oh hai, you're awake! Is it too early for a treat?"

Edit: too early to be awake. Back laters.

This photo was taken at 4am lol

Imagine being so wealthy that spending money on stupid mobile games wouldn't mean anything: that's the kind of wealth I aspire to.

Getting close to the end of the 2 chilli ferments. Seems to be doing its thing correctly, good bubbles, cloudy brine no mold etc.

Always crazy to think it takes almost a year from seed to bottle. I think if I had kids it would definitely be an effective learning activity as it covers everything from soil, nutes, plant life cycle and biology, pests diseases management, science w/ fermenting / food safety. Had that to an extent at uni but had to pull things together from different subjects (mostly out of books) without anything unifying or an end goal. This process knocks a whole lotta shit over in one.

Doing more work.

I could either do another 2 hours or leave it till tomorrow or something.

Very easy to do manual labour while watching movies.

Shopping done. Time to zonk in bed.

Decided I couldn't be bothered with wet bathers, so taking a loooong bath this morning in the hotel before breakfast instead of a swim. Usually I love to get out and about in the city but have really enjoyed a proper staycation, including room service last night.

how do snorers get enough oxygen in their sleep or they just dont

I need some advice

I bought this thing from temu because I thought it looked awesome and it does.

But how can I hang it up? I haven't hung up something like this before. It's material not paper or cardboard.

Stupid computer game needs secure boot with requires re-doing the partition or upgrading to windows 11, which probably requires re-doing the partition anyway.

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